Bible Verses About Union With Christ

It is his doing that you are united with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!

For who has known the mind of Adonai? Who will counsel him? But we have the mind of the Messiah!

Using the grace God gave me, I laid a foundation, like a skilled master-builder; and another man is building on it. But let each one be careful how he builds.

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Yeshua the Messiah.

but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The “cup of blessing” over which we make the b’rakhah — isn’t it a sharing in the bloody sacrificial death of the Messiah? The bread we break, isn’t it a sharing in the body of the Messiah?

Because there is one loaf of bread, we who are many constitute one body, since we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.

Now you together constitute the body of the Messiah, and individually you are parts of it.

Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new!

God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”

I know a man in union with the Messiah who fourteen years ago was snatched up to the third heaven; whether he was in the body or outside the body I don’t know, God knows.

When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Also, he has put all things under his feet and made him head over everything for the Messianic Community,

which is his body, the full expression of him who fills all creation.

You have been built on the foundation of the emissaries and the prophets, with the cornerstone being Yeshua the Messiah himself.

In union with him the whole building is held together, and it is growing into a holy temple in union with the Lord.

so that the Messiah may live in your hearts through your trusting. Also I pray that you will be rooted and founded in love,

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in every respect grow up into him who is the head, the Messiah.

Under his control, the whole body is being fitted and held together by the support of every joint, with each part working to fulfill its function; this is how the body grows and builds itself up in love.

As for husbands, love your wives, just as the Messiah loved the Messianic Community, indeed, gave himself up on its behalf,

in order to set it apart for God, making it clean through immersion in the mikveh, so to speak,

in order to present the Messianic Community to himself as a bride to be proud of, without a spot, wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without defect.

This is how husbands ought to love their wives — like their own bodies; for the man who loves his wife is loving himself.

Why, no one ever hated his own flesh! On the contrary, he feeds it well and takes care of it, just as the Messiah does the Messianic Community,